Tag: alaska

How popular is the baby name Alaska in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Find out using the graph below! Plus, see baby names similar to Alaska and check out all the blog posts that mention the name Alaska.

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*Enlli, which debuted last year, comes from the name of the Welsh island Ynys Enlli (called Bardsey Island in English). The island name is usually translated as “island of the current,” with ynys meaning “island,” and enlli meaning “current.” You can hear the proper pronunciation of Ynys Enlli at Forvo.

Finally, all of my previous posts on the popular (and unique) baby names in England and Wales: 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008.

All this recent interest in mining Bitcoin is making me think of a gold rush.

And that reminds me…I have yet to talk about the many dozens of babies named after the Klondike Gold Rush (1896-1899).

Here are some examples of people named Klondike:

Klondike Counsell, born in Utah in May, 1897

Klondike Winters, born in Michigan in May, 1897

Harry Klondike Hayes, born in Washington in June, 1897

Klondyke Alaska Slaughter, born in Kentucky in July, 1897

Klondike McKinley Smith born in Oregon in August, 1897

Klondike A. Bogardeus, born in Ohio in August, 1897

Harold Klondike Hathaway, born in Massachusetts in August, 1897

Klondike P. Flint, born in Ohio in September, 1897

Klondike DeMoss Tucker, born in Indiana in September, 1897

Klondike Goldy Kelly, born in Ohio in October, 1897

Goldy Klondike Fletcher, born in Nebraska in December, 1897

Pearl Klondike Lincoln, born in Pennsylvania in December, 1897

Kittie Klondike Hughes, born in Texas in January, 1898

Klondyke Dodd, born in Texas in January, 1898

Klondike D. Ator, born in Texas in January, 1898

Loren Klondike Philleo, born in Washington in January, 1898

Dewey Klondike Livingston, born in Oklahoma in February, 1898

Klondyke Kirkendall, born in West Virginia in March, 1898

Vannie Klondyke Smith, born in West Virginia in June, 1898

Earl Klondike Kinahan, born in Illinois in June, 1898

Joseph Klondike Dawson, born in Tennessee in September, 1898

Roy Klondike Temple, born in Oregon in September, 1898

John Klondike Griffith, born in Massachusetts in October, 1898

Klondike Dewey Sengelmann, born in Texas in December, 1898

Some of the above take the Klondike theme even further with names like “Goldy” and “Alaska.” Others commemorate war hero Commodore George Dewey or 25th U.S. President William McKinley.

The baby name Klondike has never appeared on any SSA list, but I think it could (should?) have in 1897 and 1898, if a complete set of data had been collected those years.

Where does the word Klondike come from? The Klondike River was originally called Tr’ondëk in the Hän language. Tr’ondëk means “hammerstone water,” as the people who originally inhabited the area would “hammer stakes into the riverbed and weave branches between them to create weirs that guided fish into carefully set basket traps.”

The state of South Australia, home to about 8% of Australia’s population, has released its baby name rankings for 2009. Here are the top names for each gender, followed by two dozen names that were used only once last year.

In 2007, the most popular names in Brussels (the capital of both Belgium and the European Union) were:

Boys

Girls

Mohamed (235)

Adam (169)

Rayan (84)

Nathan (81)

Gabriel (66)

Amine (62)

Ayoub (58, tie)

Mehdi (58, tie)

Lucas (56)

Anas (54)

Lina (94, tie)

Sarah (94, tie)

Aya (86)

Yasmine (71)

Rania (70, tie)

Sara (70, tie)

Salma (69)

Imane (63)

Ines (56)

Clara (49)

According to Brussel Nieuws.be, the number of births between 2002 and 2007 rose by 8.4% for boys and 9.2% for girls, but the total number of different names increased by 17.0% and 20.7%, respectively. Very interesting…